I think no matter how transparent the game is it won't take off because it's lacking the social aspect. The only somewhat popular 1v1 games i can think of are fighting games and those can easily be played with two people on one console. Having a friend to play with is what keeps people from quitting when the game gets frustrating. How to fix that i don't know, CTF and TDM could be pushed more but neither of those modes seems particularly good for competition, or at least not as good as duel.

Hatchet, Machete, Battle Axe, Shortsword, Crowbar, Mjolnir, Cleaver, Pipe, Khopesh. I think that's all supporter items. The only exclusive which currently exists and can't be traded is the Early Access wrench. On Christmas there is a candy cane melee, but that just replaces the default melee for a few days. There are two items which rarely drop and can't be purchased in the store but can be traded, the angry droid head and the tech katana. Finally there is the ArenaFPS hatchet, which was given out as a prize at a tournament. I don't think there are more than 20 of those around.

He's not running an AMD GPU.
Can you go back to stock just to verify that it is really not the overclock causing the freeze? The stability of an overclock can decay over time and just because it's stable in one application doesn't mean it's stable in another. I've had overclocks crash after 17 hours of prime95.

The bot can't handle the forcefield on static discharge. It'll just stand there waiting for you to walk through. Also the bot quite often gets stuck in a loop where it'll repeatedly peak the same corner/tele. It also seems to only concentrate on one thing, when it backs away from a fight it'll run past any item, even yellow on aerowalk.
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With more than one bot on the server the game immediately starts.

It was meant as a joke. Try what i suggested and please describe the scenario in which you encounter the problems a bit more precisely so i can check whether it's just Reflex poorly performing due to the circumstances or you having an individual problem.

Well, the 1080ti releases soon, time for an upgrade.
Try setting the priority for reflex to high in the task manager. The game in general doesn't perform that well on highly populated servers unfortunately. What settings are you on and what is your average framerate?